The application of smart materials and metastructures has been rapidly increasing in
advanced multiphysical systems because of their ability to modify mechanical responses by …

The chief point of the present study is to analyze numerically the surface stress effects on the
nonlinear dynamic performance of nanosized lightweight piezoelectric bridge-type energy …

Recently, the mechanical performance of various mechanical, electrical, and civil structures,
including static and dynamic analysis, has been widely studied. Due to the neuroma's …

Soft transduction technology is rapidly adopting soft active elastomer-based minimum
energy structures because of their distinctive programmable shape-morphing …

Regarding laminated structures, an electromechanically coupled Finite Element (FE) model
based on Layerwise Third-Order Shear Deformation (LW-TOSD) theory is proposed for static …

This study conducts buckling and free vibration analyses of multi-directional functionally
graded sandwich plates subjected to various boundary conditions. Two scenarios are …

This study investigates the electromechanical performance of piezoelectric sandwich plates
both numerically and experimentally. The effect of different inner design parameters, namely …

The electromechanical responses of single and multi-layered piezoelectric functionally
graded graphene-reinforced composite (FG-GRC) plates are studied based on an accurate …

Bi-level tailoring of cellular metamaterials involving a dual design space of unit cell and
elementary beam level architectures has recently gained traction for the ability to achieve …

This paper proposes an effective numerical method for shape control of bi-directional
functionally graded plates (2D-FGPs) with piezoelectric layers. Isogeometric analysis (IGA) …